San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-06-27
EDITORIAL BREVITIEs.

W mere Is boston!
The gamblers In stocks, coffee and
wheat have had their own way Of 1t for
spell. Perhaps the country will get
down to business now.
All, Lin is getting Americanized. He
strikes for higher wages in New York,
and his washee washee master tumbles
to the racket.
LETTERS OF sentiment are good to boost
prohibition boom with, but when il
comes to hard facts on which to base &C
tiOn for the state it were wiser TO trust to
the revenue returns.
The Houston papers represent the
press banquet rs covering the quill
drivers who were present COat-tail deep
in a halo of fine cut glory. Gov Ross
response to Texas" WAS particularly
apprC priste and happy.
The latest reports from Cincinnati in.
dictate that the worst has not been
reached in the Fidelity bank swindle
and fears are expressed that the short
ages will aggregate Sl0.000,000. Harper
was a rank rattle-braineds Spectator and
has sooOped everything he could lay his
hands on.
The Galveston News remarks that il
does not seem to have occurred to the
G. A. r., leaders that there are now no
confederate states. Grover Cleveland
differs from the Galveston News
and speaks OF the confederate
states In express terms as
distinct from the loyal states. This is
the first recognition by any president of
the United States OF the cOniederaCy. Ii
Ia worth making a note OF.
In the readjustment OF pOstOffice regis
trations at the close Of this fiscal year,
twenty-five OF the third-class offices will
be reduced to second-olass and the presi-
Dental offices will be twenty less than
at present, two of the fourth class offices
being advanced to the presidential
grade. The number Of promotions from
the fourth TO the third class this year has
been one hundred and eighteen. Uncle
sam is not losing ground.
ALL advices and reports to the con-
trary the papal missionaries to Ireland
have special instructions to leave pOliti-
cal affairs severely alone. Their author
itv extends to eColesiastic matters only.
The pope of Rome has neither inclina-
ton nor intention OF interfering between
England and Ireland. He knows alto
gether too much to be caught between
the blades Of such pair of shears.
In giving concert at $40 ticket and
turning the proceeds over to the relief
fund of the Opera COmique, Miss Van
Zandt took q royal revenge on the in
suits that French operate audiences and
managers had heaped upon her. She
added nitre to vinegar when she farther
refused all magerical offers which fol-
lowed her noble donation and said that
she would never again sing to Paris
ian audience.
The Illinois supreme court righteous
ly holds that bank directors are trustees
for the depOsitOrs as well as for the
stockholders, and are liable to said de-
positOrs for not exercising due care ard
diligence in the protection OF their in
terests. The decision grew out of a suit
to recover deposits made after such
time as the directors by observing due
diligence might have known that the
bank was not solvent.
GALVESTON seconded HOustOn's efforts
to make the drill and the press banquet
Snd the baby show an undisguised sue
cess, and the success came right along
like song with an illust alton. BE
| hold, how good and how pleasant it is
for cities TO dwell together in unity. "
Fort Worth and Dallas have broad
guage example set before them In this
thing.
EXAGGERATION is the life OF prohibition
| journalism. The Paris News has be-
come 20 accustomed to telling whOppers
| as q prohibition organ thai in q mere
| matter Of news it doubles all legitimate
statements and multiDlies that product
| by two. The four outlaws shot by Sher-
| i'll HOag and his party in Rowan county,
KY, become thirteen in the Times edi-
tOrial. Is this the rule by which prOhi-
| bitiOn maiOrities in North Texas are
manufactured
Ell PAsO talks of engineering a land
| buyers excursion for the benefit OF that
| city. II that "IadmOr" in the sand can
stand such racket the old Alamo City
| should organize a land buyers eXCur-
sion that would draw purchasers from
all quarters OF the national domain.
There Is more money in lands in this
vicinity than is to be made by land pur-
chase anywhere else in Texas.
KEY WEST yellow fever is not such an
awful epidemic after all. Forty deaths
in thirty days in city OF $1,000 pOpu-
latiOn need not scare the wits out of
| people. The situation is merely re-
minder OF what will come II due pre-
cautions are not taken. 1t is a text
| from which all southern cities can
| preach themselves a home sermon on
the need Of Increased cleanliness.
| The southern governors have made a
| very favorable record in their deliveran-
ces on this flag business. Not one OF
them but has deprecated the action OF
the executive in making the order for
/ Gill
| the incident as an indication OF northern
| good will. Not one of the southern gov
| errors wants to take custody Of those
flags which merely represent fatal mis-
take and blind error on the part OF the
seeding states.
Ex-GOvERNOR GILPIN, Of Colorado, is
| In the thrOes of a divorce suit, which de-
| velOps most sensatiOnally. This Gilpin is
in a warmer berth than was the immOr-
| tai John of the same name when he took
| that holiday ride. Gilpin's married life
| has been anything but holiday. His
| wife, Judging from the evidence, was o
she dragon and the governors money his
sole attraction. His life was frequently
in danger from her knife and his divorce
suit is entered none too soon for his per-
| sOnal safety.
1T Is stated from Rome that there will
be no hesitanoy in putting in force the
order Of accommodation with which
DIR. MOGlynn was threatened, when the
days Of grace have expired. He has
| treated Rome with contempt and showed
too utter a disregard for her counsels to
be allowed to pass unnOticed. Threat
ening Rome lie not q success. In leaV-
ing the church for the anti-pOverty fold
and in allowing himself to be used Rs
Georges emissary to insult Editor